[Jeff Chandler]

I hope they are Democrats.

[Jeff Chandler]

As long as we're on the subject, how many people are aware of NASSA?

[TigersEye]

Worden said he has discussed the potential price tag for one-way trips to Mars with Google co-founder Larry Page, telling him such a mission could be done for $10 billion.

He said said: ‘His response was, “Can you get it down to $1 [billion] or $2billion?” So now we're starting to get a little argument over the price.’

Oh yeah! Sign me up for the budget one-way trip to Mars. lol

[dr_lew]

Where do they get Starship out of this? That right there is enough to give the lie to the whole thing, in my mind. Well, you could say the same thing about “Astronaut”, but this is the second time around.

[Drumbo]

So they have £1 million (= about $633,000 US) + $100,000 from Nasa ... so they have only $9,999,267,000.00 to go. George Soros to the white courtesy phone please.

[PowderMonkey]

"Spam in a can."

[rickb308]

Load it up with Congress & send them to Nirvana.

[RayChuang88]

This idea of a one-way trip is already obsolete.

If you read this article from the current issue of Popular Science:

The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts to Mars

They're working on a spaceship essentially ejecting a constant stream of heated plasma gas from liquid hydrogen that could take astronauts from Earth to Mars in only 39 days! (And Mars back to Earth in almost the same amount of time.) Because Mars has plentiful water beneath the surface, it means we can make liquid hydrogen on the Martian surface, refuel this spacecraft in Mars orbit, and return to Earth.